Abstract: An engine malfunction determination system includes a vehicle engine, an engine sensor system, an engine control module and an electronic display device. The engine sensor system has at least one sensor configured to detect an operation condition of the vehicle engine. The engine control module is in electrical communication with the sensor system to receive a detection signal from the engine sensor system regarding the operation condition of the vehicle engine. The engine control module is programmed to determine an anomaly in the detection signal. The electronic display device is programmed to display an indication of engine malfunction when the engine control module determines that the anomaly in the detection signal exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A tire includes tread having at least one ring-shaped steel belt extending in a circumferential direction of the tire, and a pair of beads having bead filler extending to an outer side of a tire-radial direction of the bead core, in which an electronic component is embedded in a region between a tire-radial direction outside end of the bead filler and a tire-width direction outside end of the steel belt.

Abstract: A transfer device includes a belt, a transferor, a holder, a biasing member, and a movement mechanism. The transferor is movable to contact the belt. The holder holds the transferor. The biasing member biases the transferor toward the belt. The movement mechanism contacts the holder and causes the transferor to move in a direction opposite to a direction in which the biasing member biases the transferor. The holder includes a contact portion to contact the movement mechanism and a holder portion. The contact portion includes a material having a higher rigidity than the holder portion.

Abstract: A rack includes: a casing; M pairs of supports that are provided inside the casing so as to extend in a depth direction and arrayed at regular intervals in a predetermined direction; and a lock mechanism that locks returnable containers housed while being supported so as to be slidable along the respective M pairs of supports. The lock mechanism has M rotary lock main bodies that are respectively provided at the M pairs of supports and each unlock at a predetermined rotation angle, and a coupling member that couples the M rotary lock main bodies to one another and allows them to rotate in conjunction with one another. The predetermined rotation angle for unlocking is different for each of the M rotary lock main bodies, and the M rotary lock main bodies are driven to rotate by a single driving source.

Abstract: An annular body includes a base, a first resistance wire, a second resistance wire, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The base surrounds a central axis and expands in a direction intersecting the central axis. Resistance values of the first and second resistance wires change according to strain of the base. The first terminal is electrically connected to the end of the first resistance wire. The second terminal is electrically connected to an end of the second resistance wire. The first terminal is at a first position in the circumferential direction. The second terminal is at a second position in the circumferential direction. When viewed in the axial direction, the central angle defined by the first position, the central axis, and the second position is equal to or greater than about 90°.

Abstract: An electro-optical element includes a substrate, and an optical functional layer formed on a main surface of the substrate, in which the optical functional layer includes an optical-input-side optical waveguide configured to guide light emitted from a light source, an optical branch part configured to branch the optical-input-side optical waveguide into two optical-modulation optical waveguides, a Mach-Zehnder optical modulation part configured to modulate light guided through the two optical-modulation optical waveguides, an optical coupling and branch part configured to branch the two optical-modulation optical waveguides configured to guide modulated light modulated by the Mach-Zehnder optical modulation part into one monitoring optical waveguide and a plurality of optical-output-side optical waveguides, and an optical coupling part configured to make the plurality of optical-output-side optical waveguides as one optical-output optical waveguide.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises: a rotor; an annular stator including stator core blocks arranged to surround a magnet of the rotor; insulating members that respectively cover the stator core blocks; coils wound around the stator core blocks via the insulating members, respectively; and a bus ring engaged with the insulating members; wherein the bus ring includes: an inner ring provided with a terminal portion to which each conductive wire of the coils is connected; an outer ring disposed on an outward side in a radial direction of the inner ring and engaged with the insulating members; and a bridge portion that connects the inner ring and the outer ring and forms a radial gap between the inner ring and the outer ring.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a processing apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: shift one or more captured images selected from a plurality of captured images including a reference captured image, and compose at least one subject surface image by superimposing the shifted one or more captured images on the reference captured image. The plurality of captured images have been obtained with an imaging portion within a predetermined time while a surface of a subject moving relative to the illumination light is irradiated with a plurality of beams of illumination light traveling in different directions in at least one plane.

Abstract: A light-emitting element driving device includes an error amplifier configured to output a voltage corresponding to the difference between a voltage corresponding to the current flowing through a light-emitting element and a reference voltage, and to switch between an operating state and a non-operating state according to a control signal; a driver configured to drive, based on the output voltage of the error amplifier, a switching element in a voltage feeder configured to feed a voltage to the light-emitting element; and a suppressor configured, when the error amplifier switches from the non-operating state to the operating state, to suppress a rise in the output voltage of the error amplifier.

Abstract: Provided is a catalyst for amide compound hydrogenation characterized in that rhodium and molybdenum are supported on hydroxyapatite, the catalyst for amide compound hydrogenation providing a catalyst that can promote a reduction reaction that converts an amide compound into an amine compound, can be used under moderate conditions, and has durability that allows repeated use thereof while retaining high activity. Also provided is a method for producing an amine compound, the method being characterized by including bringing an amide compound into contact with the catalyst for amide compound hydrogenation to cause hydrogenation, thereby producing an amine compound.

Abstract: An external gear includes a body, external teeth, a diaphragm, and a strain gauge. The diaphragm extends in a direction intersecting with an axial direction on another side in of the body the axial direction. The strain gauge is on at least one of a surface on one side of the diaphragm in the axial direction and a surface on another side of the diaphragm in the axial direction. The strain gauge is only in a region that is about a half or less of a radial length from one end of the diaphragm in the axial direction to the other end of the diaphragm in the axial direction with a radial midpoint between the one end of the diaphragm in the axial direction and the other end of the diaphragm in the axial direction as a center in a section passing through the central axis.

Abstract: A showerhead includes a shower plate, a base member in which a gas flow passage is provided, the base member fixing the shower plate, a plurality of gas supply members disposed in a gas diffusion space and connected to the gas flow passage, the gas diffusion space being formed between the shower plate and the base member, and a flow adjusting plate disposed in the gas diffusion space, the flow adjusting plate being disposed on an outer periphery on an outer side from the plurality of gas supply members.

Abstract: A leaning vehicle or a straddled vehicle, including a vehicle body, a light source unit, a light using device, an optical fiber cable, an electrical power supply unit, a plurality of electrical units, and an electrical cable. The vehicle body includes a seat and a body cover. The optical fiber cable has a supported portion disposed along, and supported by, a trunk portion of the electrical cable, and an upstream portion connecting the light source unit and the supported portion without being supported by the trunk portion. The supported portion and the upstream portion are partially disposed within an in-body covered region, which is at least one of a region closer to a vehicle center than an outermost surface of the body cover is, or a region positioned further in a downward direction than an uppermost portion of the seat is, both being invisible from an outside of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle having: a vehicle body; a plurality of light-emitting parts; a light source configured to output a laser beam to the light-emitting parts; a fiber optic cable that constitutes a part of a laser beam path, the fiber optic cable having a most upstream branch portion; a single shared laser driver board controlling laser beam source elements in the single light source; and at least one laser light-emission-manner converter, each disposed in, or downstream of, the most upstream branch portion, to thereby cause each light-emitting part downstream from said each light-emission-manner converter to change a light-emission manner thereof. The laser light-emission-manner converter and/or the single shared laser driver board are at least partially disposed in an in-body covered region, which is disposed further downward than, and in a plan view of the vehicle overlaps, any of a fuel tank, a dummy tank, a foot board, and a seat.

Abstract: A transfer device includes a movable component, a moving assembly, a restrictor, and an operating member. The movable component moves toward and away from a latent image bearer unit. The moving assembly causes the movable component to move toward and away from the latent image bearer unit. The restrictor restricts the latent image bearer unit from detaching from an image forming apparatus. The operating member causes the moving assembly to move the movable component away from the latent image bearer unit and releases restriction of detachment of the latent image bearer unit from the image forming apparatus by the restrictor.

Abstract: An optical coupler of the present disclosure includes a plurality of one-input multiple-output multimode interference input parts provided for each laser beam of the plurality of laser light beams. The optical coupler further includes one light output port configured to allow three laser light beams to be coupled and emitted therethrough, a plurality of light input side optical waveguides configured to extend from each of the plurality of one-input multiple-output multimode interference input parts, a light output side optical waveguide configured to extend from the light output port, and an optical coupling part configured to have the plurality of light input side optical waveguides and the light output side optical waveguide connected thereto.

Abstract: A measurement device includes: a light source that emits light; an interference optical system including a beam splitter that splits the light emitted from the light source into reference light and irradiation light for irradiating an object, the interference optical system generating interference light by causing reflected light and the reference light to interfere with each other; at least one optical element that emits the at least part of the irradiation light; a first photodetector that detects the interference light; a second photodetector that detects monitoring light that is any one of part of the light emitted from the light source, part of the irradiation light in the interference optical system, or part of the reference light in the interference optical system; and a processing circuit that adjusts the intensity of the irradiation light emitted to the outside according to the intensity of the monitoring light.

Abstract: A cell sample evaluation apparatus includes an evaluation light irradiation unit for irradiating an irradiation region set in a culture region of a plurality of cells in an object cell sample with evaluation light having a wavelength in a mid-infrared region under a predetermined irradiation condition, a dead cell number measurement unit for measuring a dead cell number generated according to an irradiation amount of the evaluation light in the irradiation region of the object cell sample, and a culture state analysis unit for evaluating a culture state of the object cell sample by obtaining an object correlation between the irradiation amount of the evaluation light and the dead cell number for the object cell sample and comparing a reference correlation between the irradiation amount of the evaluation light and the dead cell number for a reference cell sample and the object correlation.

Abstract: A light guide plate includes an incident surface by which a light from a light source enters, an exit surface from which the light exits, and light deflecting parts that cause the light entering from the incident surface and guided to exit from the exit surface. The light deflecting parts are arranged on an arrangement line which is a linear arrangement region. At least one arrangement line includes a region that is not parallel to the incident surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus at least comprising: first image forming means for forming a first adhesive layer of a first toner on a sheet; and second image forming means for forming a second adhesive layer of a second toner on the first adhesive layer, adhesive image patterns are formed from the first and the second adhesive layer, the image forming apparatus further comprising specific booklet bonding means, wherein at least both the first and the second adhesive layer are formed on one of a first sheet and a second sheet that face each other in the sheet bundle, at least the first adhesive layer is formed on the other of the first sheet and the second sheet, and G1>G2 is satisfied, where G1 denotes a storage elastic modulus of the first toner, and G2 denotes a storage elastic modulus of the second toner.